Jurors ask question about Kwame Kilpatrick charges

DETROIT (AP) -- Jurors have entered the courtroom for the first time to ask a question during deliberations in the corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

The jury has asked federal Judge Nancy Edmunds to clarify the wording in some of the charges. Separately, the judge told jurors they could go home early Tuesday to avoid a winter storm at rush hour.

It's the sixth day of deliberations.

Kilpatrick, his father Bernard and city contractor Bobby Ferguson are charged with running a criminal enterprise that relied on kickbacks, bribes and rigged contracts. Kwame Kilpatrick also is charged with fraud, tax crimes and other offenses.

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He resigned as mayor in 2008 in a different scandal and served time in state prison for obstruction of justice.